the game of football would be safer is the league would FINALLY demand that players did not use any drug enhancements at all...no steroids, no HGH....
the players are big enough and fast enough already, and making them bigger and faster still is only making the hits more damaging...
The problem is that the athletes have figured out how to take PED’s in a largely undetectable fashion. Many of them start early in their careers, even as early as high school. Even if, starting a college career, that they started testing and the players stopped using, most of the gains have already been made.
Unfortunately the ones that don’t take them are “outplayed” by those that do. My sons have never asked me to play football (they play soccer instead), and I’m glad I didn’t have to disappoint them by saying no. There is no reason for a teenager to deal with permanent injuries for a game...
When all players are proportionally large and fast, the gains and risks offset.
the players are big enough and fast enough already, and making them bigger and faster still is only making the hits more damaging...
On TV you really can’t tell the difference, and I think the NFL was better 40 years ago before the physical freaks.